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p: incentives able to act as rewards w/o prior learning
s: incentives that gain their status through learning or other events ($)

Drive Theories
incentive theories

-internal reasons for motivation
-external reasons for motivation

Wanting:
Liking

Wanting: Anticipation of pleasure
Liking: comes from wanting in the past,
pleasure at the moment

Dopamine system

seems to serve as the currency for reward w/in the brain (from brainstem to pre-frontal cortex)

Homeostasis
Set point

constant internal state (equilibrium)
set point: value that homeostatic system tries to maintain
+/-10C = death
set point for weight/fat cells does not change only size of fat cells change, therefore dieting w/o exercise not forever

Hypothalamus

part of the brain that recognizes temperature/thirst/hunger changes.
can be fooled w/ stimulation

thirst: neurons become activated when salt level of blood rises-causing dehydration of these neurons

e: when our bodies lose water b/c we haven't drank or exercise extensively
i: CAUSED BY OSMOSIS
moved from zones of plentiful water to zones of less

Conditioned Aversion
Conditioned Satiety

A:Associative memories of food w/ something else unpleasant afterwards--come to hate the food
S: fullness we feel after a meal is at least in part a product of learning--when able to eat w/e amounts we please